The Wow Factor? A Comparative Study of the Development of Student Music Teachers' Talents in Scotland and Australia

For some time there has been debate about differing perspectives on musical gift and musical intelligence. One view is that musical gift is innate: that it is present in certain individuals from birth and that the task of the teacher is to develop the potential which is there. A second view is that musical gift is a complex concept which includes responses from individuals to different environments and communities (Howe and Sloboda, 1997). This then raises the possibility that musical excellence can be taught. We have already explored this idea with practising musicians (Stollery and McPhee, 2002). Our research has now expanded to include music teachers in formation, and, in this paper, we look at the influences in their musical development which have either 'crystallised' or 'paralysed' the musical talent which they possess. Our research has a comparative dimension, being carried out in Scotland and in Australia. We conclude that there are several key influences in the musical development of the individual, including home and community support, school opportunities and teaching styles and that there may be education and culture-specific elements to these influences

Pleasure, arousal, dominance, and judgments about music in everyday life

The aim of the present research was to consider what particular features are significant predictors of whether music is present in a given situation, as well as what factors influence a person’s judgments about the music. Applying Mehrabian and Russell’s (1974) Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance model to everyday experiences of music, 569 people reported on their activity for the previous day via the Day Reconstruction Method (Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz, & Stone, 2004). Data concerning each event included the activity and location, and characterization of the experience using the Pleasure–Arousal–Dominance measure. Moreover, for those events where music was present, participants also indicated how they heard the music and made four judgments about the music. Results indicated that the location, activity, and the person’s perception of dominance were significant predictors of the presence of music during everyday activities and that person’s judgments about the music. Contrary to prior research that has considered predominantly situational pleasure and arousal variables, the present results demonstrate that dominance is arguably the important variable in contextualized music listening

Processes and experiences of creative cognition in seven Western classical composers

In a qualitative study, we explored the range of reflections and experiences involved in the composition of score-based music by administering a 15-item, open-ended, questionnaire to seven professional composers from Europe and North America. Adopting a grounded theory approach, we organized six different codes emerging from our data into two higher-order categories ( the act of composing and establishing relationships). Our content analysis, inspired by the theoretical resources of 4E cognitive science, points to three overlapping characteristics of creative cognition in music composition: it is largely exploratory, it is grounded in bodily experience, and it emerges from the recursive dialogue of agents and their environment. More generally, such preliminary findings suggest that musical creativity may be advantageously understood as a process of constant adaptation – one in which composers enact their musical styles and identities by exploring novel interactivities hidden in their contingent and historical milieux

Kank Is an EB1 Interacting Protein that Localises to Muscle-Tendon Attachment Sites in Drosophila

Little is known about how microtubules are regulated in different cell types during development. EB1 plays a central role in the regulation of microtubule plus ends. It directly binds to microtubule plus ends and recruits proteins which regulate microtubule dynamics and behaviour. We report the identification of Kank, the sole Drosophila orthologue of human Kank proteins, as an EB1 interactor that predominantly localises to embryonic attachment sites between muscle and tendon cells. Human Kank1 was identified as a tumour suppressor and has documented roles in actin regulation and cell polarity in cultured mammalian cells. We found that Drosophila Kank binds EB1 directly and this interaction is essential for Kank localisation to microtubule plus ends in cultured cells. Kank protein is expressed throughout fly development and increases during embryogenesis. In late embryos, it accumulates to sites of attachment between muscle and epidermal cells. A kank deletion mutant was generated. We found that the mutant is viable and fertile without noticeable defects. Further analysis showed that Kank is dispensable for muscle function in larvae. This is in sharp contrast to C. elegans in which the Kank orthologue VAB-19 is required for development by stabilising attachment structures between muscle and epidermal cells

Polarized photons in radiative muon capture

We discuss the measurement of polarized photons arising from radiative muon capture. The spectrum of left circularly polarized photons or equivalently the circular polarization of the photons emitted in radiative muon capture on hydrogen is quite sensitive to the strength of the induced pseudoscalar coupling constant $g_P$. A measurement of either of these quantities, although very difficult, might be sufficient to resolve the present puzzle resulting from the disagreement between the theoretical prediction for $g_P$ and the results of a recent experiment. This sensitivity results from the absence of left-handed radiation from the muon line and from the fact that the leading parts of the radiation from the hadronic lines, as determined from the chiral power counting rules of heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory, all contain pion poles.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure

Вплив вітамінів групи B (B1, B2, B5, B6, B10, B12) на активність ферментів системи антиоксидантного захисту і вміст продуктів пероксидного окиснення ліпідів у крові бугайців на відгодівлі

The article highlights the specifics of the effect of various doses of a complex of B vitamins (B1, B2, B5, B6, B10, B12) on the activity of critical enzymes of the body's antioxidant defense system (superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase) and the content of peroxide oxidation products (diene conjugates and Malan dialdehyde) in the blood of cattle at the final stage of fattening. The research was conducted during the winter-spring stall on 12-month-old Ukrainian black-spotted dairy cows. According to the principle of analogs, five groups of experimental animals (control and four experimental) were formed, each with six heads. The experiment lasted six months. The rations for the research groups of Bugai cattle are prepared by the recommended norms, taking into account the chemical composition of the fodder of the given area, the age of the animals, live weight, and the planned average daily growth. The silage type of fattening was used for feeding the Bugai cattle. The basis of our dosage of various vitamins of group B for fattening steers of experimental groups is the appropriate percentage of the recommended doses of individual vitamins of group B for fattening pigs (10 % – D1, 20 % – D2, 40 % – D3, 60 % – D4 group). The conducted studies established that the addition of a complex of B vitamins (B1, B2, B5, B6, B10, B12) balanced in terms of nutrients and minerals and fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E to the diet of fattening bulls in appropriate doses causes an increase in activity of critical enzymes of the antioxidant defense system in the blood of fattening bulls (the activity of superoxide dismutase increases the most (by 8.9–28.4 %)) and a decrease in the content of both primary (diene conjugates) and secondary (malanic dialdehyde) products of lipid peroxidation in the blood of fattening bulls, which depends on the dose of B vitamins added to the diet (B1, B2, B5, B6, B10, B12). The most significant change in terms of morphological composition in animals third (B1 – 0.040; B2 – 0.06; B5 – 1.2; B6 – 0.25; B10 – 0.0030; B12 – 0.0006 mg/kg body weight) and fourth (B1 – 0.070; B2 – 0.10; B5 – 2.0; B6 – 0.40; B10 – 0.0050; B12 – 0.0010 mg/kg body weight) research groups, and smallest – in bull Ist (B1 – 0.015; B2 – 0.03; B5 – 0.5; B6 – 0.10; B10 – 0.0012; B12 – 0.0002 mg/kg body weight) and research group, which is associated with dose introduced to the diet of calves during the final fattening phase of B vitamins (B1, B2, B5, B6, B10, B12).У статті висвітлюються особливості впливу різних доз комплексу вітамінів групи В (B1, B2, B5, B6, B10, B12) на активність ключових ферментів антиоксидатної системи захисту організму (супероксиддисмутаза, каталаза, глутатіонпероксидаза) і вміст продуктів пероксидного окиснення ліпідів (дієнових кон’югатів і маланового діальдегіду) у крові бугайців на заключному етапі відгодівлі. Дослідження проведено у зимово-весняний стійловий період на бугайцях української чорно-рябої молочної породи віком 12 місяців. За принципом аналогів було сформовано 5 груп дослідних тварин (контрольну і 4 дослідні) по 6 голів у кожній. Дослід тривав 6 місяців. Раціони для дослідних груп бугайців складені відповідно до рекомендованих норм із врахуванням хімічного складу кормів даної місцевості, віку тварин, живої маси, планованих середньодобових приростів. Для годівлі бугайців використовували силосний тип відгодівлі. В основу нашого дозування різних вітамінів групи В для бугайців дослідних груп на відгодівлі взято відповідний відсоток від рекомендованих доз окремих вітамінів групи В для свиней на відгодівлі (10 % – Д1, 20 % – Д2, 40 % – Д3, 60 % – Д4 група). Проведеними дослідженнями встановлено, що додавання до раціону бугайців на відгодівлі збалансованого за поживними і мінеральними речовинами та жиророзчинними вітамінами А, D, E комплексу вітамінів групи В (B1, B2, B5, B6, B10, B12) у відповідних дозах викликаає підвищення активності ключових ферментів системи антиоксидатного захисту у крові бугайців на відгодівлі (найбільше зростає активність супероксиддисмутази (на 8,9–28,4%) і зниження вмісту як первинних (дієнових кон’югатів), так і вторинних (маланового діальдегіду) продуктів пероксидного окиснення ліпідів у крові бугайців на відгодівлі, що залежить від дози додатково введених до раціону вітамінів групи В (B1, B2, B5, B6, B10, B12). Найбільші зміни в активності ферментів системи антиоксидантного захисту (супероксиддисмутаза, каталаза, глутатіонпероксидаза) і у показниках вмісту продуктів  пероксидного окиснення ліпідів у крові бугайців на відгодівлі за корекції їхнього раціону комплексом вітамінів групи В (B1, B2, B5, B6, B10, B12) встановлено у тварин 3-ї (B1 – 0,040; B2 – 0,06; B5 – 1,2; B6 – 0,25; B10 – 0,0030; B12 – 0,0006 мг/кг живої маси) та 4-ї дослідних груп (B1 – 0,070; B2 – 0,10; B5 –2,0; B6 – 0,40; B10  – 0,0050; B12 – 0,0010 мг/кг живої маси), а найменші – у бугайців 1-ї дослідної групи (B1 – 0,015; B2 – 0,03; B5 – 0,5; B6 – 0,10; B10  – 0,0012; B12 – 0,0002 мг/кг живої маси), що повʼязано з кількістю введених до раціону бугайців на заключному етапі відгодівлі вітамінів групи В (B1, B2, B5, B6, B10, B12)

7-Chloro-4-[(E)-N′-(4-fluoro­benzyl­idene)hydrazin­yl]quinoline monohydrate

The mol­ecule of the title hydrate, C16H11ClFN3·H2O, is slightly twisted, as indicated by the dihedral angle of 9.55 (10)° formed between the quinoline ring system and the benzene ring. The conformation about the C=N double bond is E, and the amine-H atom is oriented towards the quinoline residue. In the crystal structure, the water mol­ecule accepts an N—H⋯O and makes two O—H⋯Nquinoline hydrogen bonds, generating a two-dimensional array in the ab plane, which is further stabilized by C—H⋯O inter­actions. The most significant contacts between layers are of the type C—H⋯F